Perplexity

Backend Engineer

• Build scalable systems that ingest and process data from the web, files, and other sources.
• Optimize interfaces that interact with databases and caching systems.
• Collaborate with PMs, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to understand product requirements.
• Work closely with AI, Search, and Data Science teams to iterate on non-deterministic systems.
• Manage a complex orchestration system with many moving parts and interfaces.
• Scale, optimize, and load balance multiple services with rapidly changing needs.

Backend Software Engineer

Technical Customer Success

• Serve as the dedicated technical resource and advocate for our most important API and product customers, providing in-depth troubleshooting assistance and educating them on optimal use of our platforms.
• Become one of the foremost technical and troubleshooting experts for our API and product offerings at Perplexity AI.
• Partner with the Enterprise, Mobile, and API teams to resolve issues, engaging leaders internally or with customers and coordinating resources across multiple teams as needed.
• Translate learnings from customer issues into scalable solutions, working with Engineering and Go-To-Market teams to implement improvements.
• Build strong relationships with customer leaders and operators to ensure the success of their applications.

Customer Success Engineer – Contract

Recruitment

• Own end-to-end interview scheduling across product engineering, and business roles — coordinating complex multi-stakeholder panels across time zones
• Serve as the primary candidate touchpoint from first to final interview, ensuring every interaction reflects Perplexity’s speed and quality
• Maintain accurate, real-time data in Ashby ATS, ensuring every candidate record is complete and up-to-date
• Track and analyze recruiting data and surface insights for the recruiting team
• Initiate and contribute to projects that will improve and scale our recruiting processes
• Coordinate candidate travel, reimburse expenses, and manage onsite interview logistics for our San Francisco office

Recruiting Coordinator – Contract

General Counsel

• Lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements for Perplexity Enterprise Pro and API customers, including MSAs, Order Forms, SaaS subscription agreements, API terms, DPAs, BAAs, and NDAs with the experience to own deals from initial redline to signature.
• Serve as the primary legal partner to enterprise sales and GTM teams, providing fast, practical, and business-aligned counsel that accelerates deal velocity without compromising on risk management.
• Advance Perplexity's compliance and data security contracting posture including negotiating data processing agreements, security addenda, and responding to customer security and compliance questionnaires in close partnership with the Security and Privacy teams.
• Advise on AI-specific legal considerations embedded in enterprise and API agreements, including acceptable use, data retention and training restrictions, output liability, and evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., EU AI Act, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR).
• Build and maintain scalable legal infrastructure including contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and fallback positions to support high-volume enterprise deal flow and reduce friction in the sales cycle.
• Implement and continuously improve legal processes and tools (e.g., CLM, self-serve workflows) to enable the business to move quickly while maintaining visibility and control over contractual commitments.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Compliance teams to surface and address legal risk early, particularly on matters related to data use, enterprise integrations, and customer-specific compliance requirements.
• Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for enterprise AI and SaaS products, and translate emerging requirements into practical contractual and policy guidance for internal stakeholders.

Senior Counsel, Commercial – Enterprise

• Develop and execute a comprehensive patent portfolio strategy for Perplexity's core technologies, including AI search, retrieval-augmented generation, ranking systems, and enterprise AI infrastructure.
• Lead patent harvesting efforts by conducting regular invention disclosure sessions and working closely with engineering, research, and product teams to identify patentable innovations early in the development cycle.
• Manage the full patent prosecution lifecycle from invention disclosure through filing, prosecution, and grant working with outside patent counsel to ensure quality, efficiency, and strategic alignment.
• Evaluate patent applications for eligibility, novelty, relevance, and detectability to build a portfolio that provides meaningful competitive protection and business value.
• Advise on AI-specific IP considerations, including patentability of AI/ML-implemented inventions, freedom-to-operate analyses, and the evolving USPTO and global regulatory landscape for AI patents.
• Negotiate and manage IP transactions, including patent licenses, cross-licenses, and IP-related provisions in commercial and partnership agreements, working alongside the Commercial (Enterprise) team as needed.
• Build and maintain an open source software compliance program including OSS scanning, risk mitigation, and proper attribution in partnership with Engineering and Security teams.
• Conduct internal training sessions for engineering and product teams on IP best practices, invention identification, and the strategic value of the patent program.
• Monitor the competitive patent landscape and provide strategic intelligence on competitor filings, emerging technology trends, and potential IP risks.
• Establish scalable IP processes, tools, and policies to support Perplexity's rapid growth and expanding global footprint.

Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property – Patent

Mechanical Engineer

• Work directly with the designers, marketers, and engineers to bring beautiful and impactful introductory web experiences to life.
• Work with and improve the tools that enable effective marketing sites like our CMS, design system, i18n process, SEO/AEO, a/b testing.
• Always be thinking about how to improve design quality, fit & finish, and team velocity.

Lead Design Engineer – Growth & Marketing

Analyst

• Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform our product roadmap and accelerate adoption
• Formulate hypotheses and validate them by designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests
• Determine appropriate metrics and visualizations for tracking, and implement them in dashboards
• Design new pipelines that will help to deliver better ranking quality. From discovering new signals, producing metrics and construct data labeling pipelines with human and LLM feedback.

Search Quality Analyst

Customer Success Manager

• Serve as the dedicated technical resource for Comet browser users, providing troubleshooting assistance and guidance on optimal use of the platform.
• Grow into the go-to technical and troubleshooting expert for Comet, helping both users and internal teams confidently navigate and use the browse.
• Partner with Enterprise, Mobile and Desktop teams to resolve issues and coordinate resources across multiple teams as needed.
• Translate learnings from Comet user issues into scalable solutions, working with Engineering and Go-To-Market teams to implement improvements.
• Build strong relationships with key Comet Enterprise users to ensure the success of their workflows in the browser.

Customer Success Associate

Business Development Rep

• Balance dual responsibilities of direct revenue generation and pipeline development for the broader sales team
• Qualify enterprise prospects using BANT criteria to identify high-value opportunities for Account Executive handoff
• Own and close small to mid-sized accounts through efficient email communication and concise 15-minute discovery calls
• Execute targeted outbound campaigns to penetrate specific industry verticals
• Use social selling to represent the Perplexity brand
• Research and map accounts within assigned verticals to build comprehensive prospect lists
• Develop vertical-specific messaging that resonates with industry pain points
• Maintain pristine data hygiene in Salesforce, ensuring all prospect interactions and qualification criteria are documented
• Respond rapidly to inbound inquiries with consultative, value-driven communication

Business Development Representative

Communications

• Create exceptional and strategic executive communications, including stage speeches, leadership emails, board decks, and other formats that require excellent writing and critical thinking to articulate the company vision and strategy.
• Lead Perplexity's next phases of internal growth, managing complex information flow during high-growth, evolving and owning all-hands presentations, Slack communications, and more.
• Develop a unique and authentic voice for our executives and company leaders internally and externally.
• Build out and manage the internal communications cadence, ensuring employees are informed, connected, and engaged with our mission and product velocity.
• Identify opportunities to elevate our culture by highlighting employee stories, product wins, and customer impact internally.
• Synthesize complex AI-related topics and business strategies into clear narratives internally and externally.
• Partner closely with all teams to lead change management communications, translating complex organizational updates into simple and compelling messages.

Executive Communications Manager

Product Marketing

• Turn ambiguity into clarity.
• Drive launches as a system, not an event.
• Make others materially better at their jobs.
• Obsess over the customer and the market.
• Measure outcomes, not just outputs.
• Influence without authority.

Product Marketing Manager

Platform Engineer

• Lead the Cosmos DB Migration
• Migration Strategy: Design and execute zero-downtime migration paths from legacy databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or others) to Cosmos DB.
• Architectural Redesign: Lead the "lift and shift" vs. "refactor" decision-making process. You will redesign relational or legacy NoSQL schemas into optimized, partitioned Cosmos DB models.
• Tooling & Automation: Build or implement data migration pipelines (using Azure Data Factory, Change Data Capture, or custom Spark jobs) to ensure data integrity and consistency during the transition.
• Validation & Cutover: Establish rigorous testing frameworks to validate data parity, latency benchmarks, and failover reliability before final cutover.
• RU Optimization: Post-migration, you will be responsible for tuning Request Units (RUs) and indexing policies to ensure the new system is more cost-effective and performant than the old.
• Partitioning Mastery: Implement complex partitioning strategies (including hierarchical partitioning) to eliminate hot spots in our most high-traffic collections.
• Global Distribution: Configure multi-region write capabilities to ensure Perplexity users have sub-10ms latency regardless of their location.

Azure Platform Engineer

Research Engineer

• Relentlessly push search quality forward — through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available.
• Train, and optimize large-scale deep learning models using frameworks like PyTorch, leveraging distributed training (e.g., PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP) and hardware acceleration, with a focus on retrieval and ranking models.
• Conduct research in representation learning, including contrastive learning, multilingual, evaluation, and multimodal modeling for search and retrieval.
• Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation.